Decolonizing Design

Includes the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, World History of Design, Encyclopedia of Asian Design, design and craft ebooks, and museum image collections. Relevant to all aspects of Design.

Focused on contemporary art, design, expanded cinema, sound art, and critical theory. Formats include e-books, essays, exhibition materials, sound and film, and other none-traditional digital formats. Broadly relevant across art and design. 

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A multi-disciplinary database with peer-reviewed journals, books, reports, and periodicals covering humanities, social sciences, arts, medical sciences, and more.

Full-text articles and abstracts from international journals, books, podcasts, and images, including Art Index, Art Abstracts, and Art & Architecture Complete. Relevant to Visual Arts, Art History, and Architecture.

Includes indexes such as ARTbibliographies Modern, Design and Applied Arts Index, and International Bibliography of Art, along with full-text journals. Relevant to Fine Arts, Design, and Architecture.

Full archival runs (up to the moving wall) of over 2800 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Includes JSTOR Archive Journal Collections: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Life Sciences, Lives of Literature, Public Health Journals, Security Studies, & Sustainability; Primary Source Collections: 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sites: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, & Global Plants. Relevant to all majors.

Online access to African Arts, Design Issues, and October, covering African art, design research, and contemporary art criticism. Relevant to Fine Arts, Design, and Art History.

Access to key design and art journals, including CoDesign, Design and Culture, Design for Health, The Design Journal, Digital Creativity, Public Art Dialogue, and Third Text. Relevant to Design, Fine Arts, and Critical and Cultural Studies.

A search tool for electronic resources including articles, e-books, theses, government publications, videos, oral histories, podcasts, reports, and digitized archival documents and photographs. Primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia, Aotearoa – New Zealand, and other areas of the world. Filter by indigenous creators available. Links to open access full text where possible; otherwise, if subscription access is unavailable, request an InterLibrary Loan.